Bound to emancipate
Subtitle: working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong
By: Angelina Chin
Series: Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781442215597; 9781442215610
Subjects: Women's rights; Women employees; History; Hong Kong; Feminism; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on transliteration; title: Introduction: geographies of emancipation; title: British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong; title: Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou; title: Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong; title: The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935; title: Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s; title: Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk; title: Women service workers and labor activism; title: Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship; title: Glossary; title: Works cited; title: Index; title: About the author.